Two charged in slaying of athlete

Basketball standout was shot at restaurant

1:32 AM,
Apr. 6, 2013

Travonte J. Broussard / Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office

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Nine months after a shooting that rocked New Iberia, two men have been charged in the death of a high school basketball star and the wounding of another man in a Taco Bell parking lot.

Travonte J. Broussard, 20, of Lafayette, was arrested Thursday and charged with second-degree murder in the July 1 slaying of Frederick Joseph, 19, a standout player at Westgate High School in New Iberia who had been attending North Dakota State College of Science on a basketball scholarship.

Broussard also was charged with attempted second-degree murder in the shooting of Larran Jackson, 23, also from New ...